Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas / / Cristóbal de Molina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Molina, Cristóbal de,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bauer, Brian S.; Cantarutti, Gabriel E.; Smith-Oka, Vania.
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Brian S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)

Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher Ge...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface: Translators’ Notes
• Acknowledgments
• The Life and Times of Cristóbal de Molina
• Introduction
• Foreword: Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Origin Myths 4
• Chapter 3: Of Quipus and Inca Yupanqui
• Chapter 4: Th e Sorcerers
• Chapter 5: Th e Rituals of the Months of the Year
• Chapter 6: Th e Ayuscay, Rutuchico, and Quicochico Rituals
• Chapter 7: The Capacocha
• Chapter 8: Taqui Onqoy
• Appendix: Editions of Cristóbal de Molina’s Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas (Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los incas)
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index